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dc.contributor.authorM. Shochet, Ian
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Tanya
dc.contributor.authorHomel, Ross
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:10:16Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:10:16Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2013-05-28T00:15:39Z
dc.identifier.issn0814723X
dc.identifier.doi10.1375/anft.28.2.109
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/18016
dc.description.abstractSchool connectedness (i.e., the extent to which students feel accepted, valued, respected and included in the school) has recently surfaced as one of the most important predictors of adolescent mental health (particularly depressive symptoms). Thus it is now vital to understand predictors of school connectedness. The school environment is an established predictor, but we set out to examine whether parental attachment predicts both the perception of the school environment and school connectedness and whether the perception of school environment mediates the relation between parent attachment and school connectedness. A study of 171 high school students from years 8 to 12 showed that parent attachment strongly predicted both the experience of the school environment and school connectedness. We also confirmed the mediation hypothesis that suggests that the relationship between parent attachment and school connectedness is not a direct one but largely carried through individual differences in the perception of the school environment that is influenced by parent attachment. This finding has important clinical implications in terms of shedding some insight on how multiple systems might be interlinked in influencing wellbeing in adolescents and confirms the importance of intervening at the double platform of both the family and the school system.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.format.extent200712 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAustralian and New Zealand Society of Family Therapy
dc.publisher.placeAdelaide
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom109
dc.relation.ispartofpageto118
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
dc.relation.ispartofvolume28
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic Health and Health Services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSocial Work
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1117
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1607
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1701
dc.titleThe impact of parental attachment on adolescent perception of the school environment and school connectedness.
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2007 Australian Academic Press. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2007
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorHomel, Ross J.


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